[kj] Pete Townshend, musical scholar and taxonomist: "The Police are punk rock"

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Leigh Newton wrote:

> Their first album was pretty much punk and reggae. 

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Well, I understand in 1977 they did "Every Little Thing She Does is 
Magic." AND reggae? Mr. Tonwshend was right -- punk rock!. :)

I know they have origins in sort of that milieu, in a vague way. But so 
do a lot of that came from London at the time.

-Oliver